The 2016 Wyss Film Festival
2016 marked the sixth annual Wyss Film Festival. Over the course of the year, I was able to view 220 different movies. It was only the fourth highest yearly total, but up from both 2014 and 2015 (which logged 210 and 217 films, respectively). The quality of films compared to the past two years was also significanlty better in 2016. But as in recent years, watching movies has taken more and more of a backseat to life. I'm usually working on other things at the same time, and split up the films across multiple nights. Nearly all of my movie watching continues to be free thanks to the Demmer Public Library in Three Lakes. But with another baby on the way in 2017 who knows how long I can keep this up. Still, as long as filmmakers keep making movies, I'm going to keep watching them. So onward into the new year! We'll see how it goes. Now without further ado, here is a running list of all the films I watched in 2016!
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Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
Trainwreck (2015)
Gosford Park (2001)
Seventh Heaven (1927)
The Living (2014)
The Bells Of St. Mary's (1945)
The Equalizer (2014)
Ghost (1990)
San Andreas (2015)
Alice Adams (1935)
An Education (2009)
The Guns Of Navarone (1961)
By The Sea (2015)
Born Yesterday (1950)
Rock The Kasbah (2015)
The Turning Point (1977)
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
The Revenant (2015)
King Kong (1933)
Two Men In Town (2014)
Z (1969)
Mortdecai (2015)
The Human Comedy (1943)
The Forger (2014)
Little Women (1933)
Dementia (2015)
The Country Girl (1954)
The Keeping Room (2014)
The Mission (1986)
Every Secret Thing (2014)
Mean Girls (2004)
The Lady In The Car With Glasses And A Gun (2015)
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Runoff (2014)
The King And I (1956)
Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser (2015)
Watch On The Rhine (1943)
Room (2015)
Ninotchka (1939)
Shelter (2014)
High Noon (1952)
I Smile Back (2015)
Hold Back The Dawn (1941)
Madame Bovary (2014)
Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
A Most Wanted Man (2014)
In Old Chicago (1937)
God's Not Dead (2014)
The Sound Of Music (1965)
Noah (2014)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Good Dinosaur (2015)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Captain Phillips (2013)
Auntie Mame (1958)
Nasty Baby (2015)
Born On The Fourth Of July (1989)
Flight (2012)
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
Let's Be Cops (2014)
Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964)
Broken City (2013)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Serena (2014)
Ordinary People (1980)
Project Almanac (2015)
The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (1948)
Laggies (2014)
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Spotlight (2015)
Father Of The Bride (1950)
Hector And The Search For Happiness (2014)
The Sundowners (1960)
The Homesman (2014)
The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946)
Cold In July (2014)
The Front Page (1931)
Joy (2015)
Kings Row (1942)
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
The Skeleton Twins (2014)
The Alamo (1960)
The Immigrant (2013)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Race (2016)
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Calvary (2014)
Naughty Marietta (1935)
Machine Gun Preacher (2011)
Adam's Rib (1949)
The Peanuts Movie (2015)
The Rose Tattoo (1955)
Let's Kill Ward's Wife (2014)
All That Jazz (1979)
Captive (2015)
Three Smart Girls (1936)
The Cobbler (2014)
America America (1963)
The Invitation (2015)
Blossoms In The Dust (1941)
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Chicago (2002)
Child 44 (2015)
The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
The Ides Of March (2011)
Creed (2015)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Daddy's Home (2015)
A Thousand Clowns (1965)
The Queen (2006)
Annie Hall (1977)
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My Top 10 Films
(from the first 6 months of 2016, in alphabetical order)
Captain Phillips (2013)
Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964)
Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
Room (2015)
Spotlight (2015)
The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946)
The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
The Ides Of March (2011)
The Revenant (2015)
The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (1948)
Honorable Mentions:
An Education (2009),
Bonnie And Clyde (1967),
Captains Courageous (1937),
Chicago (2002),
Flight (2012),
High Noon (1952),
Joy (2015),
The Good Dinosaur (2004),
The Sound Of Music (1965),
The Ten Commandments (1956)
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White Bird In A Blizzard (2014)
Mutiny On The Bounty (1962)
The Theory Of Everything (2014)
Equals (2015)
Imitation Of Life (1934)
Dumb And Dumber To (2014)
Bound For Glory (1976)
Cop Car (2015)
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Eye In The Sky (2015)
Quo Vadis (1951)
Scenic Route (2013)
Love Affair (1939)
Pawn Shop Chronicles (2013)
The Prince Of Tides (1991)
Ex Machina (2015)
Moulin Rouge (1952)
Cheap Thrills (2013)
Shanghai Express (1932)
In The Heart Of The Sea (2015)
Alibi (1929)
Son Of God (2014)
The Untouchables (1987)
Nebraska (2013)
Smilin' Through (1932)
Nobody Walks (2012)
Madame Curie (1943)
Me Before You (2016)
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
In My Sleep (2010)
San Francisco (1936)
The Water Diviner (2014)
Jezebel (1938)
Best Man Down (2012)
Nicholas And Alexandra (1971)
The Good Lie (2014)
David Copperfield (1935)
Finding Dory (2016)
The Great Outdoors (1988)
Magic In The Moonlight (2014)
Romeo And Juliet (1968)
Hatfields & McCoys (2012)
Stage Door (1937)
A Most Violent Year (2014)
Gigi (1958)
Eddie The Eagle (2016)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Out Of The Furnace (2013)
Sons And Lovers (1960)
Free State Of Jones (2016)
The Love Parade (1929)
Louder Than Bombs (2015)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Ghostbusters (2016)
Lost Horizon (1937)
The Danish Girl (2015)
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
Man From Reno (2014)
As Good As It Gets (1997)
Dark Victory (1939)
Birdman Or (The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance) (2014)
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)
Steve Jobs (2015)
Pygmalion (1938)
Secret In Their Eyes (2015)
Sister Act (1992)
Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015)
Since You Went Away (1944)
The Drop (2014)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Divergent (2014)
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
One Night Of Love (1934)
War Room (2015)
The Nun's Story (1959)
Camp X-Ray (2014)
Double Indemnity (1944)
The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
The Campaign (2012)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Insurgent (2015)
The Razor's Edge (1946)
Temple Grandin (2010)
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Deepwater Horizon (2016)
The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938)
The Book Thief (2013)
Great Expectations (1946)
Exodus: Gods And Kings (2014)
Coming Home (1978)
The East (2013)
All This, And Heaven Too (1940)
13 (2010)
Funny Girl (1968)
Southpaw (2015)
All About Eve (1950)
Parkland (2013)
The Broadway Melody (1929)
Disconnect (2012)
The Music Man (1962)
Suffragette (2015)
Miracle On 34th Street (1947)
The Frozen Ground (2013)
Dodsworth (1936)
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My Top 10 Films
(from the second half of 2016, in alphabetical order)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Ex Machina (2015)
Hatfields & McCoys (2012)
Madame Curie (1943)
Mississippi Burning (1988)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Southpaw (2015)
Temple Grandin (2010)
The Theory Of Everything (2014)
The Untouchables (1987)
Honorable Mentions:
All About Eve (1950),
Apocalypse Now (1979),
Deepwater Horizon (2016),
Disconnect (2012),
Dumb And Dumber To (2014),
Eddie The Eagle (2016),
Finding Dory (2016),
Imitation Of Life (1934),
Nicholas And Alexandra (1971),
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
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